War Across Tianhai City's Defense Lines, All Things Frozen Beneath the Extreme Ice Phoenix

Wherever the light feathers reached, Mutant Creatures fell in swathes. Their corpses left behind no filth; instead, they transformed into specks of light that nourished the earth.

Everyone watched in shock as tender grass glowing faintly began to sprout from the land covered by the light feathers, and the scorched earth burst back to life in an instant.

When the final wave of light feathers descended, the entire Northern Defense Line fell into brief silence.

The once-surging Beast Tide had been cleared away, leaving a vacuum several kilometers wide. Only the light dust drifting through the sky proved that countless monsters had once existed here.

The young girl slowly withdrew her wings of light and hovered in the air, sacred radiance flowing around her body.

She lowered her head to overlook the battlefield and said softly:

"Pure Land can only be forged by Saint Light."

The Espers fighting the Mutant Creatures were naturally not limited to them. There were many more, but they were among the strongest of them.

They had not only reached Sequence, but Second Sequence, second only to First Sequence. Yet among the Mutant Creatures, there were naturally beings capable of matching them.

The instant the girl finished speaking, the entire battlefield suddenly sank into eerie silence.

The ground began to tremble. It was not the vibration of artillery fire, but a sign that some ancient colossal creature was awakening.

The scorched earth beyond the Northern Defense Line suddenly bulged like boiling black waves, and a giant crater more than a kilometer across formed in an instant.

"Hiss!!!!"

Amid a bloodcurdling screech, a pitch-black Mutant Scorpion burst from the ground.

Its body was over a hundred meters long, its shell covered in bizarre crimson patterns, while six pairs of compound eyes glimmered with different ferocious lights.

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